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LiDAR map of Thirlwall
Waystone shows the bare-earth LiDAR of Thirlwall, a parish in Northumberland, at one metre per pixel. The heritage records hold 40 recorded places here: 28 features mapped by Historic England from aerial photographs, 4 ancient places (Pleiades), 3 listed buildings, 3 scheduled monuments, 2 places recorded in Wikidata. On the LiDAR, most of the ground in the parish lies between about 160 m and 236 m above sea level; its highest point is about 290 m. By their register titles, its scheduled monuments include 3 Roman sites.
Thirlwall on the LiDAR. Bare-earth LiDAR, drawn in your browser by the RVT toolbox (the Relief Visualization Toolbox, ZRC SAZU). It opens on Combined VAT; the panel holds all seventeen of its methods, each with its settings. LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence. More about this map
The Ordnance Survey six-inch map of Thirlwall, 1888–1913. The Ordnance Survey’s six-inch-to-the-mile map, second edition, surveyed between 1888 and 1913 and held by the National Library of Scotland, laid over today’s map with the paper colour removed, so the field boundaries, place names and antiquities the surveyors drew sit on the ground. More about this map
Roman roads near Thirlwall. The Roman road network compiled by the Roman Roads Research Association (Digital Britannia), with each road’s grade of evidence, and the Roman forts, camps and towns along them. More about this map
Aerial archaeology at Thirlwall. Historic England’s Aerial Archaeology Mapping: banks, ditches, enclosures and field systems traced by archaeologists from aerial photographs and LiDAR, coloured by period. The records hold 28 aerial survey features in the area. More about this map
See Thirlwall with everything Waystone has
The full map lays the LiDAR under the Ordnance Survey's six-inch maps of 1843–1913, the Roman road network, Historic England's aerial survey (28 features in the parish) and the 40 recorded places in the parish, with search, the sun dial, the ground probe and the cross-section tool, for all of England and Wales. Free, with nothing to install.
- County
- Northumberland, England
- Area
- 32.4 km²
- Recorded places
- 40
- Height (LiDAR)
- Mostly 160–236 m above sea level; highest 290 m
- ONS code
- E04010868
Places with their own page
Scheduled monuments and other designated sites
- Chapel Rigg Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- Crooks Roman temporary campScheduled monument
- Hadrian's Wall, vallum, section of the Stanegate Roman road and a Roman temporary camp between the B6318 road and Poltross Burn in wall miles 46 and 47Scheduled monument
- Turret 47A (Foultown)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 47B (Gap)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Milecastle 47 (Chapel House)Ancient place (Pleiades)
- Turret 46B (Wallend)Ancient place (Pleiades)
Listed buildings
Other recorded places
- Milecastle 47Wikidata place
- Irthing GorgeWikidata place
- ROADAerial survey feature
- WALLAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE WORK\DITCH\WALLAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE WORK\DITCH\WALLAerial survey feature
- MILITARY ROADAerial survey feature
- ENCLOSUREAerial survey feature
- MILITARY ROADAerial survey feature
- BUILDINGAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- SHIELINGAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- LIMESTONE QUARRYAerial survey feature
- TEMPORARY CAMPAerial survey feature
- COAL WORKINGSAerial survey feature
- ROADAerial survey feature
- TRAMWAYAerial survey feature
- DEFENCE WORK\DITCH\WALLAerial survey feature
- WALLAerial survey feature
Nearest places with their own page
- Thirlwall Castle2.8 km south
- Aesica4.6 km south-east
- Lees Hall Roman camp5.3 km south-east
Neighbouring parishes
Reading the LiDAR
The terrain model has trees, crops and buildings removed, so banks, ditches, mounds, old field systems and hollow ways show as relief. Many are modern or natural: check the records and the old Ordnance Survey map in the app. How to read a LiDAR map. Scheduled monuments are protected by law; use public rights of way.
Sources
- LiDAR: Environment Agency, 1 m composite DTM, Open Government Licence.
- Heights: Waystone, from the same LiDAR sampled about every 12 m inside the boundary; 'most of the ground' is the middle 80% of those heights; metres above Ordnance Datum Newlyn.
- Parish boundary: Office for National Statistics, Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas (December 2024), Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025.
- Recorded places: the national heritage records (Historic England, Cadw, Coflein and others) as held by Waystone.
- © Historic England 2026, Aerial Archaeology Mapping, Open Government Licence. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026.
- Ancient places: Pleiades (ISAW/AWMC), CC BY 3.0.
Last updated 2026-10-16.